Books Received

Anastaplo, George. But Not Philosophy: Seven Introductions to Non-Western Thought. Foreword by John Van Doren. New York: Lexington Books, 2002. xxiv, 397p., index. $26.95. Mesopotamian, ancient African, Hindu, Confucian, Buddhist, Islamic, Native American.

Anger, Suzy, ed. Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2001. ix, 279p., index. Twelve literary efforts.

Armon, Shifra. Picking Wedlock: Women and the Courtship Novel in Spain. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. xiv, 231p., bibl., index. $26.95. Female writers' fictions about marriage and wedlock contesting proscribed gender roles.

Barnard, Frederick M. Democratic Legitimacy: Plural Values and Political Power. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's UP, 2001. xiv, 256p., index. $75. Norms becoming democratic norms.

Bass, S. Jonathan. Blessed are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2001. xv, 322p., bibl., ill., index. Classic letter of the civil rights movement, its composition, distribution, and impact.

Bayle, Pierre. Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, Vol. II. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2001. xx, 529p., bibl., ill., indices. Letters 66-146 (Nov. 1674-Nov. 1677).

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Fascist Modernities Italy, 1922-1945. Berkeley: U of California P, 2001. xii, 389p., index. Cultural history—politics, literature, film, etc.—under Mussolini.

Bentley, Michael. Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001. viii, 334p., bibl., index. $45. Mental and political world of the Third Marques.

Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2001. 512p., ill., index. $29.95. Black and white myths and memories of division and tragedy in the face of unionist optimism.

Boccaccini, Gabriele. Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History from Ezekiel to Daniel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002. xvii, 230p., bibl., index. $24. Daring reform after the destruction of the Temple.

Bolla, Peter de. Art Matters. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2001. ix, 157p., ill., index. Art as enjoyment.

Bontemps, Alex. The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2001. x, 224p., index. Psychological oppression of the "negro."

Boureau, Alain. Kantorowicz: Stories of a Historian. Tr. by Stephen G. Nichols and Gabrielle M. Spiegel. Foreword by Martin Jay. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. xxi, 112p. $36. Translation of Histoires d'un historien (1990).

Brainard, Marcus. Belief and its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I. (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy). Albany: State U of New York P, 2002. xvii, 331p., bibl., index. Philosophical commentary.

Bramen, Carrie Tirado. The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctivemess. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2000. x, 380p., bibl., ill., index. "Variety" in and after William James and the nationalization of ideas of diversity.

Breslin, Paul. Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001. ix, 333p., index. $20. Walcott's work in the context of West Indian history.

Brown, Gillian. The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2001. 237p., ill., index. Locke, the natural rights of children, and new attitudes toward authority.

Brown, Peter. Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire. Foreword by Miriam Eliav-Feldon. Hanover, N.H., UP of New England, 2002. xi, 160p., index. $15.95. Emergence of the poor as a distinct social class.

Buc, Philippe. The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts amd Social Scientific Theory. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001. xi, 272p., index. Anthropological category as an impediment to the study of medieval texts.

Butler, Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2000. x, 324p., ill., index. $16. Panoramic view of the mainland, pre-revolutionary American colonies.

Cabantous, Alain. Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Tr. by Eric Rauth. New York: Columbia UP, 2002. xi, 288p., bibl., index. $29.50. Translation of Histoire du blasphème en Occident (1998).

Cahn, Steven M., ed. Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy. New York...